Abanindranath Tagore’s paintings evoke the idea of India as a diverse cosmopolis ... At the height of the Swadeshi movement, the Bharat Mata painting established Abanindranath as the leader of the ...

Tagore, who was actively involved in the Swadeshi ... In the book, the country has been imagined as the Mother Goddess or ‘Bharat Mata’, and the revolutionaries as her children.